Career

Education

University of Auckland (LLB); King‚Äôs College, London (LLM).

London: Corporate and commercial

Commercial contracts

Within: Commercial contracts

Linklaters LLP's team has 'good commercial acumen, which is blended with legal expertise and a pragmatic approach'.¬†Julian Cunningham-Day, in particular, is 'very smart, super-helpful and gets things done with the minimum of fuss'. The team, which is led by¬†Richard Cumbley, has a notable focus on high-value, strategically-significant, business-critical commercial agreements. Areas of expertise include the contentious and non-contentious aspects of large BPOs, technology-related procurement transactions and IT/telecoms contracts. It is particularly strong in regulated sectors, such as financial services (including fintech), telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and energy. Reflective of the complexity of the firm's work,¬†Marly Didizian¬†and managing associate¬†Greg Palmer recently advised Sappi Group on the negotiation of key service and supply arrangements with Lenzing AG, and also parallel negotiations of an outsourcing agreement (also with Lenzing). The firm is also highly active in the negotiation of core pensions administration outsourcing agreements; Cunningham-Day, managing associate¬†Lindsey Brown¬†and others are acting for clients such as Aviva and Diageo (among various others) in this space.¬†Georgina Kon, who has more than 14 years of commercial contracts experience, acts for customers and suppliers in the public and private sectors.¬†John Crozier, who heads up the firm's global outsourcing practice, is a council member on the Global Sourcing Association (GSA) UK Council.

Self-reporting such a failure can be used as part of thecompany or partnership‚Äôs reasonable procedures defence if it is charged with anoffence. It can also be taken into account by prosecutors when making adecision about whether to prosecute and can be reflected in any penalties thatare imposed

Knowing the legal difference between a consultant and an employee is important for a company that needs to hire someone in
Nicaragua or for a person interested in rendering services for a
company or another person, due to the fact that the nature of
the contractual relationship will determine many factors that both
parties must be aware of before executing the contracting modality that will govern the relationship between them - the nature
of the contractual relationship impacts on the employment benefits, tax implications and liabilities that the parties must comply
with according to the law. ¬†labor_law_in_nicaragua

In recent years, the country ŐĀs the government has been committed to
improving Taxation in Nicaragua and attempting to follow the legislative
model used by some of the other countries in the region. Starting
January 1st, 2013, a new tax law (Law No. 822, Tax Concertation
Law) came into force in and completely changed the taxation system
in Nicaragua. Two years later a new law was issued by the National
Assembly containing more than 80 amendments, additions and
repeals (Law No 891) which came into force December 18th, 2014.